Unshackled Moments ~ July 10 ~ The Killer Is Waiting Behind The Door!

"In a thousand trials, it is not just five hundred of them that work 'for the good' of the believer, but nine hundred and ninety-nine, plus one."

 ~ George Mueller

The are hardships that we go through that God never intended for us to have to face. But doesn't God know what's going to happen even before it happens? Yes, but  that doesn't mean that it is what He wants for us. God has granted mankind a special and powerful gift called free will. In some ways it makes God a little helpless and powerless like we are when we watch a movie and start talking to the screen, telling the heroine not to go back in the house because the killer is waiting for her there behind the door. She never listens. When we feel tension for a character in a book or movie it's because they are about to do something or have something done for them that we know will result in something that we wouldn't put them through. But this isn't fiction. It's our lives, and God is not completely a powerless viewer despite giving us the free will to ignore His voice and walk back into the danger zone time and time again.

He has the power to tweak the script. He can work things so that they can work for good, despite the choices we have made and the choices others have made that have effected us and that were mistakes or that should bring only destruction or were intended for evil against us,  He can make those disasters work for our good and the good of others. Every experience can eventually bring about good for us through God as long as we continue to turn to Him and submit ourselves to His will. So even when we've been falsely accused or mistreated and thrown in the pit for decades like Joseph, God can rework the script to bring about deliverance for us and many others.

The path I have walked is much different than the one God would have preferred from the time of my youth, without doubt. And yet, today I am in relationship with Him, walking with Him and helping others. Part of the way I can help others is because of the empathy and understanding I have because of what I myself have gone through. Just one example of God using my bad choices and the choices of others that broke and nearly destroyed me for good. But He  can't put His script into action in our lives until we surrender to His will. As long as we keep our will first we will continue to be deaf to His cries for us to avoid the danger that is so obvious to Him.